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MS. Digby 33

Summary Catalogue no.: 1634

Physical Description

Composite: six parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Coventry, Warwickshire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber ecclesie cathedralis beate Marie Coventr., ex dono fratris Ric. Luffe, monachi eiusdem ecclesie." (on flyleaf), s. xv. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Allen (1540?--1632), "8 o' 60'" (MLGB3)

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

MS. Digby 33 – Part 1

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning

MS. Digby 33 – Part 2

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning

MS. Digby 33 – Part 3

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

MS. Digby 33 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Treatise on contemplation
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Digby 33 – Part 5

Contents

1.
Alexander of Ashby, Meditations
Rubric: [added later] Meditationes quedam beati Bernardi
Incipit: Fac me delectari in dulcedine tua Domine deus vt des mihi peticiones cordis mei
Explicit: quam preparasti diligentibus te domine Iesu Christe rex glorie. Qui cum patre et cetera.
Final rubric: Expliciunt meditaciones beati Bernardi Clareuallens’

As pr. T. H. Bestul, ‘The Meditationes of Alexander of Ashby: An Edition’, Mediaeval Studies 52 (1990), 24–81 (not this manuscript), ll. 99–1081, i.e. without the initial epistle and prologue, or the concluding oratio and invectiones, found in the other manuscript known to preserve the meditations in full (Oxford, Worcester College, MS. 213).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

MS. Digby 33 – Part 6

Contents

1.
Anselm, Proslogion (fragment)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts, repr. with addenda by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, 1999). Description of part 5 revised by M. Holford, Nov. 2018.

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.